Word: heirs
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Hector Frederick Estrup Jungersen, delegate from the University of Copenhagen; Professor of Zoology and Director of the Zoological Museum; heir of an ancient and virile race, who has enriched modern science by his profound studies of reproduction and development in fishes...
...impecunious French nobleman, Count de Castleless, when Hathaway arrives. Disguising himself as the Count, Philip manages to get an interview with Marjorie. On the same day he receives a message that his uncle in England has died and left him his title and fortune, being without a direct heir...
...amusing situations abound. The story concerns itself with the winning of an inheritance and the schemes employed to obtain the fortune are most ingenious. A nephew seeking his uncle's riches procures a silent woman, really a youth, to wed his uncle. The conclusion finds the nephew the accepted heir. The scene of the play is laid in London...
...story of Adam which states that man was originally perfect, but degenerated, has been cast aside by scientists, who declare that man is the end, and the one far-off event, toward which nature has been steadily moving--the heir of all the ages. During the past forty years biological research has caused a revolution in human thought--has even changed the mind of man. Those who have lived through the bitter changed of fierce extremes in the war between science and religion compare with sorrow the times gone by, when faith was diversified by doubt, with the present, when...
...after the opening chorus for which the composer, A. W. Denison '03, has written some very stirring music, the rajah of Mandalay announces to his subjects assembled before his palace that there will be a festival on the morrow in honor of his nephew, "Prince Punjab." Punjab, the lawful heir to the kingdom, mysteriously disappeared when but a child at the time when his uncle usurped the throne. No sooner have the rajah and people retired than Punjab himself, now a wandering sailor who is unaware of his royal rights, abruptly enters and is shortly accosted by John Cass...